What appears at first glance to be an unremarkable rise in a boggy field is in fact a raised oval platform, the remnant of an enclosure that has been slowly sinking back into the landscape for centuries. It is the kind of site that rewards patience rather than spectacle, the sort of earthwork that announces itself not with dramatic masonry but with a slight thickening of the treeline and an irregularity in the ground that nags at the eye.

An enclosure of this type would originally have been defined by a bank and ditch, creating a bounded space that may have served a domestic, agricultural, or ceremonial purpose depending on its period, which remains unconfirmed here. What the records do tell us is that by the time the Ordnance Survey mapped this part of Limerick at six inches to the mile in 1840, the feature was already being recorded as a circular enclosure. By the time the more detailed twenty-five inch survey was carried out in 1897, it was described as a raised oval-shaped area, measuring roughly 32 metres on its north-west to south-east axis and 26 metres north-east to south-west, with a scarp, that is, a steep earthen slope, defining its edge and an outer ditch running from the west around through the north to the north-east. A second enclosure, recorded separately, lies approximately 170 metres to the east, suggesting this is not an isolated feature but part of a broader pattern of early activity in the area. The site record was compiled by Martin Fitzpatrick and uploaded in October 2021.

The enclosure sits immediately south of a roadway and is located in wet pasture, which means the ground underfoot is likely to be soft and unreliable in anything other than dry conditions. The outline of the monument is most clearly visible from above, and the treeline that now follows its perimeter shows up distinctly on satellite imagery, including Google Earth orthoimages captured between 2011 and 2013. Visiting in late autumn or winter, when vegetation is low, gives the best chance of reading the earthwork from ground level, though the waterlogged nature of the field demands appropriate footwear and a reasonable tolerance for mud.